If you're in the Nashville area next Monday you might want to get some inspiration. From the Nashville City Paper:
Morris Frank, father of the Seeing-Eye dog movement in the United States, will be remembered Monday at his alma mater, Montgomery Bell Academy, with a play about his life story.Two separate childhood accidents claimed Frank’s eyes, but he overcame blindness and opened the door for other visually-impaired Americans to live more a more independent life.
Frank found his ticket to freedom in a 1927 Saturday Evening Post article about shepherd dogs trained to help World War I veterans.
Reporter Dorothy Eustis gave him $10,000 to bring the technique to the United States.
Frank founded The Seeing Eye in Nashville two years later.
Actor Bill Mooney will present the play With a Dog’s Eyes: Capturing The Life of Morris Frank at 7 p.m. Monday.
Tickets are $15 for the play or $25 to include dinner at 6 p.m. All proceeds benefit The Seeing Eye, now located in Morristown, N.J.